G20 Summit Hangzhou 2016

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Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, President Barack Obama joins Chinese President Xi Jinping and heads of state, government, and international organizations for a "family" group photo during the G20 Summit at the Hangzhou International Expo Center in Hangzhou, China, Sept. 4, 2016. G20 Leaders include: President Mauricio Macri, Argentina; Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Australia; Michel Temer, Vice President of the Republic Exercising the Functions of the President of Brazil; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada; President Xi Jinping, China; President François Hollande, France; Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany; Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India; President Joko Widodo, Indonesia; President Matteo Renzi, Italy; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan; President Park Geun-hye, Republic of Korea; President Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexico; President Vladimir Putin, Russia; King Salman of Saudi Arabia; President Jacob Zuma, South Africa; President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey; Prime Minister Theresa May, United Kingdom; President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker. (P090416PS-0561)

G20 Summit Hangzhou 20162016

The G20 (short for Group of 20) is an intergovernmental forum composed of most of the world's largest economies which encompasses 19 sovereign nations and the European Union. Formed in 1999, the goal of the G20 is to address issues related to the global economy and has had an annual summit, hosted by a member state, every year since 2008.

The eleventh G20 heads of government meeting was hosted by China from September 3 to September 5, 2016 in Hangzhou. The primary priorities of the summit, as dictated by the host nation, were innovative economic growth, macroeconomic policy coordination, interconnected global trade, and anti-corruption.

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